Paper Published in Health Affairs to be Presented at the National Press Club on March 8, 2016

IRVING, TEXAS - The medical profession is in danger of devolving from a higher calling to a mere occupation due to a growing burden of non-clinical duties undermining physician morale and diminishing the nature of the profession, according to a paper to be published in the March 2016 edition of Health
Affairs by Merritt Hawkins, the nation’s leading physician search and consulting firm.

Entitled, The Medical Profession’s Future: A Struggle Between Caring For Patients and Bottom-Line Pressures, the study will be released online and in print on March 7, 2016 at 4:00PM Eastern Time. Its conclusions are based largely on data derived from a 2014 survey of over 20,000 physicians conducted by
Merritt Hawkins on behalf of The Physicians Foundation, a not-for-profit grant-making organization dedicated to advancing the work of practicing physicians. Merritt Hawkins is a company of AMN Healthcare (NYSE: AHS).

The paper will be presented by its author, Phillip Miller, Merritt Hawkins Vice President of Communications, at a Health Affairs’ March issue briefing, to be held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on March 8, beginning at 9:00AM Eastern Time.

Merritt Hawkins is the largest physician search and consulting firm in the United States and is a division of AMN Healthcare (NYSE: AHS), the largest health care staffing company in the nation and the innovator of healthcare workforce solutions.